With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)

I wonder if Paul will bring on some vilians that he is in the process of reforming. I am sure lots of them would love the glow of 'succeeding' against the heroes for once.

 

The difficulty there is in making sure there's not a risk of the subject relapsing into prior behavior under stress. While I'm sure there are some who could pull it off fine, for example, the CW version of Leonard Snart, it could be a mite tricky and irresponsible.

 

Well, a supervillain trope is taking control of televisions to give their evil monologue.
Paul has a power ring, and magic specialists who can probably make the message appear in all languages.

The insane songs, paul can pull off a song and dance number.
Massive Army, he has the Darkstars who need practice as someone mentioned.
Wholesale slaughter, well, there are plenty of people who say coffee is better than tea, who're clearly just asking for it...

 

Well even at his worst Dr. Snart did put in great effort to avoid casualties.

 

Oh yes, definitely! The musical episode! He can make this be the obligatory musical episode! And he has the perfect ally to help with this: Eris.

 

He should simulate the beginning of a Reach Friendship Program.

Watch as the JL just scratches their heads.

 

Anything that large-scale would have to be done either as a staff-level "paper" exercise (where you're doing the exercise as, essentially, a tabletop strategic- or operational-level wargame without actually involving physical forces--a fine example that almost spiralled out of control would be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able_Archer_83 ), or, if done as an actual force-on-force exercise, would be of such large scale that it would have to A) be heavily advertised in the media, and B) feature a great deal of coordination with the population in the exercise area (as it would not be feasible to simply use an unpopulated area for the exercise, particularly with the need to conduct exercises in urban defense). Indeed, B) would probably require civilian cooperation on a par with some of the US Army's largest-scale exercises that involve pretty much half of North Carolina as exercise grounds... complete with the local civilian population taking on a task of being role-players who represent various civilian groups, from the media to law enforcement to even irregular forces who operate on each side of the exercise. (Ask anyone who's ever done a rotation at the US's major MOUT facility at... I want to say it's Fort Polk... well, ask them about "Granny Truckbomb" sometime and watch them shudder...)

 

Shout out to Maxx!

Correction: extraterrestrial

I was hoping that song was going to come up.

 

Well, OL does have one of the best 'supervillians' around that needs a good laugh on speed dial.

The Shade is an expert at hammy villainy and messing with heros just for the kicks. He'd be one of my first calls for a punch clock villain playing the red team on this exercise.

 

Pun intended?

 

I don't think that the Justice League would get much out of a staff-level exercise like Able Archer 83. I think that it'd probably start with something like OL taking a few high-ranking members of the Justice League, NATO, Chinese, and Russian militaries to visit Maltus to meet with the Controllers to work out the rules for the wargame, or alternately OL being given authority to do so in the Controller's stead - to work out logistical issues for things like "what is required to be performed to count a alien spaceship as being 'killed'".

 

Is Kennedy, Oregon the place where Frankenstein fought that Uglyhead kid? If so, the Sheeda Crisis will be starting soon.

 

Well done!

However, in this setting Frankenstein is in a SHADE storage facility somewhere and so nowhere near the place.

 

Batman wants Paul for the opposing team in a war game? Has he read the report about just how easily he took down an entire Justice League in another universe? That's going to be rather one sided.

 

I've been assuming they were something that fit in the palm of your hand, circle or maybe oval shaped, and somewhere between a quarter and a 50 cent piece (American coinage) in size (and probably closer to the 50 cent piece, ~30mm). Something that can be worn around the wrist (even without redesigning it to be longer and narrower) by simply by attaching an elastic band to opposing ends.

So what do they actually look like?

Sounds like a good opportunity for a OLC training exercise. Maybe he could even bring in the Vega alliance who ticked him off earlier. Justice League VS. Conquering Alien Invasion. And hopefully the Justice League gets their ass handed to them hard enough they stop making objection to proper defenses being made against it.

 

To be fair, that version of the League had a smaller roster and no prior knowledge of his abilities or weaknesses. This version has three or four times as many people, is much better informed, and has time to plan for ways to take Paul down.

 

That reminds me, anyone catch the name Anderson Gaines?

Spoiler

He's a Durlan terrorist in the comics from the distant past of the Durlan-Kryptonian War.

 

Thank you, corrected.

If it is, then that's a kick up the bottom for the League. If it's anything less than totally one sided in the other direction, the League will learn something.

A ring, eight centimetres across and two thick with a two centimetre hole in the middle.

This version is somewhat modified, but recognisably similar. Or will be, if the team doesn't get there in time.

 

I'm still interested in that trick Alan wanted to show Paul. I am curious if it will come up as part of the potential Paragon/Renegade swap, this new invasion test, or some proactive efforts from the Orange Corps.

As for the supervillain invasion idea... Will Paul handle this like himself or will he leave room for the League to defeat him? Leaving aside the idea that defeating Paul in a fight could still result in losing the war ("I triggered it 35 minutes ago"), I'm curious if Paul will invite any of his allies into this scheme. As a training mission. Would inviting fellow orange Lanterns be a net-negative effect due to the world misinterpreting their dangerous actions against Earth? Will Paul use this opportunity to gather any special data or artifact-level items while the League is occupied?

Will Paul work out any lingering agression towards specific members of the League by hammering home on their weak points?

...Will Paul get defeated by Alan in the end?

 

Honestly, a Grayven swap would be thing single most disappointing thing that could occur.

 

May I ask why?

 

They are also quite a bit more powerful, more experienced and a lot of them have fixed their weaknesses because of Paul, Superman for example wears a environmental shield against radiation and I think a spell eater, and he still hasn't found a way to reliably defeat people as powerful as Doctor Mist without lots of preparation. Not to mention that all the lanterns also regularly train with him.

 

The "Renegade/Paragon Swap theory" reminded me of something from a long time ago. Mr. Zoat said that sometime this year (in story time), there would be a meeting of the many, many Pauls.

There is a Red Lantern, Blue Lantern, Anti-Green Lantern, one reality where an OL Paul runs off demons instead of a Lantern and controls most of Africa INCLUDING a meta-human fighting ring in Madagascar.........

I don't think the Renegade will show up (or if he does, not to swap, just a cameo), but this might be the start of a great CONGREGATION OF PAULS. With all the Pauls of the rainbow coming out to play.

 

That was a good Paul.

 

Crisis of infinite pauls

 

If all the Pauls ever meet, it should be in Bialya in front the Giant Naked Statue Paragon build of himself.

 

....You do realize of course that there's more than just ONE singular Native American "Magic Tradition", right? Different tribes, different beliefs, etc, etc.

 

I'm now imagining Listens-to-Winds from the Dresden Files in here.

 

Leonid... Oh, the Russian guy who has the same cape name as Princess Koriand'r.